Christian Romstet

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Christian Romstet (* 1640 in Weimar ; † November 21, 1721 in Leipzig ) was a German draftsman and engraver of the Baroque era .

Life

Christian Romstet (also Rumstet , Romstedt or Rombstedt ) was born in Weimar in 1640 and was baptized as an Evangelical Lutheran on February 28, 1640 in the town church of St. Peter and Paul . His father was Christian Wilhelm Rombstedt, who was accepted into the Weimar citizenship in 1629, council chamberlain in 1647 and city judge in Weimar in 1650. Only at the age of 31 years enrolled Christian Romstet in the summer months in 1671 at the University of Leipzig . For a while he lived in the Red College . He was a student of Johann Dürr and worked temporarily with Johann Caspar Höckner (1629–1671). On the prints with Höckner, his surname is Rumstet or Rombstedt in the signature , while Romstet is the surname in his sole works . Romstet mainly did portraits. He died on November 21, 1721 in Leipzig.

Christian Romstet engraved all the portraits of the Leipzig clergy. These stitches were intended for trade and had to be cheap so that he didn't spend much time on the artistic and decorative trappings. He seems to have engraved them for his own publishing house and not for the engraver and copperplate publisher Johannes (also Johann ) Frentzel (1609–1674), whose published and own lithographs were known for their lavish trappings. He spent more time on portrait prints, which he made as private commissions for families. The heads are sharply modeled and highly characteristic. From the time he was no longer under the spell of Frentzel, their frames are kept relatively simple. Christian Romstet has occasionally tried his hand at mezzotint , such as the portrait of Franz Heinrich Höltich . Most of the portraits were engraved or scraped from oil paintings , but some were also based on life.

Works (selection)

Note on literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler assumed in his New General Artists Lexicon in 1843 that there were two Romstets. In 1860 he concluded in his lexicon Die Monogrammisten that it must be father and son with the same name. In 1921, Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer used Nagler's artist lexicon as a source for their general artist lexicon . The first to actually do some research was Gustav Wustmann from Leipzig, who in 1907 in his book Der Leipziger Kupferstich in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries noticed that there was only one Romstet. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker also assumed a Romstet in their General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present in 1934 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Christian Romstet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Information about the father
  2. Höckner's birth and death dates in the Magazin der Sächsischen Geschichte , Johann Christian Hasche , 1887
  3. Signature Rombstedt
  4. Source: Gustav Wustmann: The Leipzig copperplate engraving in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries , digitized under literature